What lies do you use?

[Amaryllis]

So what do you say when someone notices your cuts? Do you speak the truth or do you lie and if you do, what lies do you use? My lies always have something to do with bushes. It's kinda funny...

Person: Omg, what happened to your arm??
Me: I fell into a bush.

Person: Omg, what happened to your leg??
Me: I fell into a bush.

Person: Omg, what happened to your hip??
Me: I fell into a bush.

Soon someone's gonna ask me "What the heck is up with you and bushes?!" and I'll have no idea what to say.

[Magenta]

"What happened to your arm?"
"I fell into a glass table."

"What happened to your hand?
"Just had a woodworking accident.

"What happened to your leg?"
"Slipped in my garage."

"What happened to your... *insert body part here*?"
*repeat any of the above*

I have a thing with glass tables apparently. The wood- and metal-working aren't too much of a lie though. I do both and getting banged up that way is perfectly reasonable.

[CyanideGoodnight]

Oh, my cat attacked me. Oh, I was holding my cat and she got nervous and digged her claws into my shoulder. I then stupidly picked her up again and it happened again. Oh, I walked into that table. Oh, I walked into that door. Oh, I fell into the door/table. Oh I slipped and fell down the hill on the sidewalk over there. Yeah, it hurt a lot, but I'm okay. Oh, I fell on some ice. Oh, I fell/tripped on *incert thing here* How did I get what cut? Where? What the fuck? I have NO idea how THAT got there, that's really weird. Haha that's kinda funny, I didn't even notice it before... haha.

In my school, these work perfectly. I'm really accident prone and everyone knows it, I even sprained my ankle walking freshman year, so it's not hard to believe I fell and got scraped up a bit.

[PartyPoison]

"what happened to your arm"
"the baby scratched me"
"I feel in a bush"
"I fell out of a tree"
"I caught on on of the sets"
"I don't know o_o"

I do set building and stage crew for plays plus I'm a dpaz and get hurt a lot anyway so these excuses normally work

[Upintheair]

Oh I was trying to get my cat out from a bush
Oh I was climbing a tree and my arm kept getting cut by branches
Oh I tripped and fell
Oh my cat got really mad at me

The list goes on! 6 months clean, and I relapsed and cut.

[dontcare97]

"what happened to your arm?"

"My stupid cat scratch me."

"what happened to you thigh?"

"It's a special tattoo style I learned off the internet. I did it with my nail."

"Did it hurt?"

"No, I barely broke the skin. I didn't even bleed."

>.> yea...that's right....

[xXl0sth0peXx]

Depending on how many you have and where and such, you could always say you scratched yourself on a fence.. I've used that at times..

Or you could say you were moving something metal (a ladder maybe?) and you scraped yourself on it?

The cat one is a good one too.

[bambino]

Anon: what happened to your *insert appropriate term here*?

Me: Oh my aunt has a new kitten, its vicious -laughs- changes topic

Except that starts people eyeing me suspiciously and going: Hm, that cats really got it out for you huh.
Me: -laughs- yeah I guess so changes topic
Or when a friend says: they're too neat to be cat scratches
And then I just don't really know what to say so I...yup you got it change the topic

I always used to hide them religiously, but then I got fucked off and just started wearing shorter things or not caring if they rode up because no-one really noticed anyway. Now I have scars but they're just thin white lines or slightly pink discolouration so you'd never know I did it. Unless you looked on my thighs which for some reason, the scars haven't faded- I think because they dont get much sun..
anyway i rambled

hate when youre trying to get away from the subject and everyones enquiring, or if people ask infront of EVERYONE. Its like: yeah, I'm really going to trust you enough to own up now.

[Comatose]

I try my hardest not to lie.... I generally just pretend I haven't heard the question, and if they persist, I tell them not to worry, or if it is in a place where there are only a few scars/cuts, then I may make up some story. but I rarely lie :s

[FullyAlive]

This is wear the fact that I am incredibly clumsy comes in useful, it's weird if I actually don't have at least one accident a day :P

I use things such as,
"There was a stray cat, and I thought it'd be a good idea to stroke it"
"I fell in the holly bush, it was really enbarassing *rambles on*"
"There was a nail sticking out a fence, it got really deep :("
"My brother broke a window, I was standing right by it"

The fact that they are obviously self inflicted, with most people if you use a certain tone, and look as such then they drop it with no further questions.

[Amaryllis]

Wow... I'm reading all these lies and like... man, and I thought mine were crappy haha. I'm honestly surprised no one's noticed the truth of our scars. We don't seem to be very good liars. I guess sometimes people just don't wanna believe

[Hatsune Miku]

I have three cats, so I just blame it on them.

[DismaliciouSx]

I think my dumbest lie was I hit my wrist on the hooks that keep your locker door closed at school :P they caught on though because it was "too perfect" and grabbed me, rolled up my sleeve and showed everyone, this was in my geometry class of 25 people. Sorry I was rambling :P

[Amaryllis]

@Dismalicious
That wasn't rambling. Have you seen my posts? Lol. If that was rambling, mine was a 10 page essay. And I'm so sorry about that. What did they do? I hope you're okay? When was that?

[Painted_Indian_Horse]

leg: a horse ran me up along a fence
shoulder and thighs: i fell on the concrete
arm: my dog/cat scratched me
or whatever else comes to mind in the moment

"i walked past the corner of my metal locker"
"i got scratched by chain-link fence"

and actually recently i've just been like not giving a fuck. most of my friends know anyway. i don't have to explain to them. but if someone random asks i use the aformentioned excuses

[DismaliciouSx]

@FaithAndTrust nothing major happened at the time but the day after I had to talk to the principal and then he deemed me unfit to be out in public and insane. Luckily it was the last week of school so when I was removed from his class it didnt do much, sure I failed and there is like a 95% chance I won't graduate on time because of it but atleast the humiliation is over.

[LittlePaperStars]

I blame my cat and how she attacked me when I accidentally scared her in her sleep...or getting her down from the christmas tree or high space.

[ShadowGirl]

ankles- I accidentally cut myself when I was shaving.
wrists- I got scratched when I was weeding around the rosebush.
legs- I fell and scraped my legs up on the driveway.

[alley]

pretty much the same as you with the falling in a bush thing! when using it towards one of my friends they replied with; 'that must of been a pretty fucked up bush.' inside my head however, I was thinking what they would of been sayingn if they'd known the truth; 'you're pretty fucked up.'

Sometimes I'll use my cat as an excuse, but rarely.

[xDarkAngelx]

For me no one has noticed my cuts as I keep them covered all the time. If some one did see them I doubt I could come up with a convincing lie as there are about 50 of them and quite a lot are deep. As for my thighs no one will see there so its ok.

[georgiamay]

If I can get away with it, I´ll use "my nans cat hate me."

If they were too big for that to work, I´ll say "They´re so old, I don´t even remember." Or, "I got attacked by a dog a year ago." They never seem to believe the second one, so I use it with people I don´t know, and replace dog with something ridiculous like kangaroo or polar bear :P

[judahtics]

why lie? if you're gonna be ballsy enough to do something like that, be ballsy enough to own up to it. lets be real here, cutting typically starts for a form of attention. lies bring more attention. hmmm, i'm seeing a pattern.

[CyanideGoodnight]

Wow... I'm reading all these lies and like... man, and I thought mine were crappy haha. I'm honestly surprised no one's noticed the truth of our scars. We don't seem to be very good liars. I guess sometimes people just don't wanna believe

Yup, people are fucking gullible. I told one girl that I tripped on the hill and slid down the pavement part for a bit and that's how I got the huge cut on my leg. She was just like "Oww that must have hurt, are you okay?" And I said "I'm fine, it hurt but I'm okay now."

A few people did find out, because I used the "cat attacked my shoulder" thing too many times. They didn't do anything but laugh, which I'm fine with, because they make fun of everyone for everything

[Comatose]

leg: a horse ran me up along a fence
shoulder and thighs: i fell on the concrete
arm: my dog/cat scratched me
or whatever else comes to mind in the moment

"i walked past the corner of my metal locker"
"i got scratched by chain-link fence"

and actually recently i've just been like not giving a fuck. most of my friends know anyway. i don't have to explain to them. but if someone random asks i use the aformentioned excuses

I've used the "a horse ran me up along a fence" before, too! though, it actually did happen, and I just cut over the scar from it.

[Bath]

I've used "that's what you get when you have a kitty cat" with a smile, more than I've used any other lie.

When I was going out with my ex, his 9yr old sister asked me about the scars on my arm and asked me if I cut myself (damn little kids know too many things) and I told her no, I got in a car accident when I was little, and my arm got caught in the seat in front of me... which was a total on-the-spot lie. On different occasions she was like "are you sure you didn't cut yourself?" but I kept up with the car story, and I still don't know if she just played along or if she really believed me. She was really smart so idk.

[Iris]

why lie? if you're gonna be ballsy enough to do something like that, be ballsy enough to own up to it. lets be real here, cutting typically starts for a form of attention. lies bring more attention. hmmm, i'm seeing a pattern.

Cutting is a way to deal with emotional pain. We are NOT doing this for attention. That's why we try so hard to hide our scars.

And to be honest, it takes more balls for a cutter to not cut, since the urge is so strong, not the other way around.

[judahtics]

Cutting is a way to deal with emotional pain. We are NOT doing this for attention. That's why we try so hard to hide our scars.

And to be honest, it takes more balls for a cutter to not cut, since the urge is so strong, not the other way around.

cutting has risks, but it's really not a big deal. and if you actually read what i said, i said, if you are going to do something so ballsy, meaning it takes a lot. apparently you missed that part.

and we can have our differences of opinion on things. seeing as no one knows why each person does what he does.

[xdancing_for_rainx]

I've used lots of excuses... though I don't know if people really believe itXD

"I was playing with my cats, and got scratched."
"There's a stray cat down the street that I take care of, but he scratches sometimes since he's not been tamed yet."
"Oh, I fell on my walk home from school."
"I'm just clumsy... it's nothing."
"I was mowing the yard and got scraped by a tree branch."
"It probably happened when I was doing yard work... I'm not really sure."
"Oh, that's nothing."
"That was a while ago... I don't remember how I got it."

Then of course I try to change the subject asap. Or at least try to blow it off and pretend nothing happened. But either way, people don't let it go, and I start getting funny looks.

[ShatteredWings]

Everyone knows I'm a cat person - i live in black and my sweater is usually got a little fur on it, so I can easily blame my two cats one of who is legitimately vicious at times.

I've said I've walked into walls before. Again, plausable. Most of the time if anyone does ask an "iunno" shrug is enough.